My WIN 7 machine will use only three of the four processors, my Linux machine uses all four without issue. I have checked my preferences and cannot find the problem. Any suggestions. My system is as follows; (my linux machine is similar)

Item Value
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name THENEWMACHINE
System Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model GA-MA790XT-UD4P
System Type x64-based PC
Processor AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 970 Processor, 3500 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Award Software International, Inc. F6, 9/16/2009
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume3
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
User Name
Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 8.00 GB
Available Physical Memory 4.13 GB
Total Virtual Memory 19.4 GB
Available Virtual Memory 3.96 GB
Page File Space 11.4 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

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Is "On multiprocessors, use at most" set to "100% of the processors" in both your online and local preferences?

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

SETI@home classic workunits 3,758
SETI@home classic CPU time 66,520 hours

I kept looking at my online preferences, it was in my local preferences. Thank you, I don't know what I was thinking.

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Local preferences override those on the web. If you make any changes to your local preferences, you will have to either use local settings for everything or remove the local settings entirely.

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BOINC WIKI

Everything is running as it should, thank you.

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